Threshing Floor Boards

The harvested produce would be spread over the threshing floor and then animals cattle or oxen would be led over it to crush and break the sheaves apart.

Threshing floor boards.

Our antique vintage thresher flooring is our original face barn board oak flooring. The mother prepares the meals and takes her turn. A dirty top oak plank that gives the look of original threshing floor. So a threshing floor has hundreds of years of wear from farming animals people and tools.

With its untouched original surface and historic patina our true grit 100 original barn threshing floors have the authentic look of a rustic cabin or barn. To keep the grain from falling out the open doorway s a board was sometimes placed across the doorway called a threshold but the term threshold was originally the floor itself or well foot worn floor boards. Our formaldehyde free epoxy finishing brings out the natural depth and patina of the wood and fills the deep crevices to create an easy to. These threshing floor boards each tell their own story with every scrape and dent that create their rustic beauty of the animals and old machines that once wore them down over years of traditional farming.

Antique threshing flooring is ideal for decks patios period workshops and barns. Before there was machinery farmers used a threshing floor to separate the grain from the chaff. This one of a kind rustic wide plank wood flooring is reclaimed from 150 200 year old threshing barns. These boards were salvaged from the first floor of the barns where the threshing took place the process of separating the grain from the stalk.

Threshing floors are in danger of being robbed 1 samuel 23 1. There are dozens of references to a threshing floor in the bible some literal and some symbolic. What is a threshing floor answer. A threshing floor is a smooth flat surface that was used in the process of harvesting grain.

Jc woodworking only sells this product unmilled. Many ontario barns built in the 1800s and 1900s were made from pine and hemlock. The massive flooring planks are worn with the character from farmers flailing wheat from the chaff generations ago on these boards. In syria at the threshing season it is customary for the family to move out to the vicinity of the threshing floor.

Today reclaimed threshing boards can be repurposed in a variety of applications including flooring stairs railing and counter tops. Reclaimed antique oak barn threshing wood flooring is the most rustic and primitive wood flooring that we offer. A booth is constructed for shade. For this reason someone always sleeps on the floor until the grain is removed.

Threshing in barns was mostly done by hand with a flail until threshing machines became available in the 19th century. In biblical days there was no machinery so after the harvest the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually.